[TriLUG] Making a bg'd bash script wait for user intervention

[Brian Henning]

Will this work for a forwarded X-session?  That's the only graphical work I
usually do with the machine; it's in a remote room of the building so it's
rare that I am logged in locally in graphical mode (and call me paranoid,
but I don't like to leave it logged in, even locked, at the local console).

~B

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
Behalf Of Ken Mink
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 5:23 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Making a bg'd bash script wait for user
intervention


I haven't seen it mentioned, so I'll throw this out. If you know
you'll be logged into the console with a window manager running, what
about throwing up a dialog box and getting the input from there? I
seem to recall the gnome and kde both have stand alone dialog boxes
for scripts to obtain input.

Ken

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